Carbon budgets for intact and recently logged forests on the Maryland Coastal Plain

Geoffrey Parker, SERC, parkerg@si.edu (Presenter)
Joshua Brinks, SERC, brinksj@si.edu
Nancy Kahn, NMNH, khanna@si.edu
Jeffrey Lombardo, Dartmouth College, jeffrey.a.lombardo@dartmouth.edu
Dawn Miller, SERC, millerda@si.edu
Dale Morrow, SERC, morrowd@si.edu
Francisca Saavedra, SERC, saavedraf@si.edu
Dan Bebber, Earthwatch Institute, dbebber@earthwatch.org.uk

The project “Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing Climate” is a study of the interactive effects of stand age (intermediate and mature) and management (intact and selectively logged) on the forest carbon balance and its dynamics. Here we report on the major above-ground components of the annual carbon balance for the period immediately after the harvesting. Components include: 1.) standing biomass and coarse woody debris, 2.) the production of wood and litter, coarse and fine, and, 3.) soil respiration. Future efforts will focus on: 1.) the below-ground stocks and fluxes, 2.) the atmosphere-biosphere exchanges, photosynthesis, autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration and 3.) whole-system carbon dynamics of the regenerating stands.

Presentation Type:  Poster

Session:  Coupled Processes at Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Interfaces   (Mon 4:00 PM)

Associated Project(s): 

• Middleton, Betsy: Spectral Bio-Indicators of Ecosystem Photosynthetic Efficiency ...details
• Roberts, Dar: Spatial, Spectral and Temporal Requirements for Improved Hyperspectral Mapping of Plant Functional Type, Plant Species, Canopy Biophysics, and Canopy Biochemistry ...details

Poster Location ID: 63